1740s

1810s

1830s

1840s

Born 1843: Adelina Patti (opera singer; namesake of the song You're the Flower of My Heart Sweet Adeline)

1860s

1864: Knights of Pythias founded

1870s

1878: Patent for the first gramophone awarded to Thomas Edison

1880s

1881: Kansas approved an act to prohibit alcohol

1910s

Born 1916: Eddie Arcaro (jockey)

1930s

Born 1930: John Frankenheimer (director of film)

1940s

Born 1940: Smokey Robinson (singer)

1945: U.S. Marines invaded Iwo Jima (WW II)

1950s

Born 1955: Jeff Daniels (actor)

1960s

1962: U.S. Senator Carl Hayden was honored for completing 50 years of Congressional service

Born 1963: Seal (singer)

Born 1966: Justine Bateman (actress)

1980s

Born 1985: Haylie Duff (actress)

1990s

Died 1998: Grandpa Jones (country musician)

1999: The world's largest snowman was completed in Bethel, Maine. He stood 113 feet, 7.5 inches tall and weighed about nine million pounds. In 2008, Bethel, Maine, also created the largest snowwoman (122 feet, 1 inch tall).

2000s

Died 2004: Jose Lopez Portillo (as president of Mexico from 1976-1982, brought the nation to the brink of economic collapse)